Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.
I'd like to build on the presentation from Mr. Montoya. He advanced the issue around contributions. He advanced the issue of the essence of why we're here today, which is to talk about an immigration policy, or law, if you will, that discriminates against a class of people.
How does it discriminate? In the case of Mr. Montoya, and others, but I'll use his case for today, he went through a process which clearly said that no one else in his family would have to undergo the application for immigration purposes except for his son, Nico, simply because he has been identified with having different abilities.
Canada has signed on to a whole variety of different covenants, including the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. If we want to say that we're a country that respects these rights, how is it possible that we would have a law that clearly discriminates against people with disabilities?
On that premise, I will ask Mr. Montoya to expand on that point. He made it in his presentation, but I want him to expand on it. How can we reconcile that difference on the issue of rights?